Since 1993 the Rencontres du Vietnam , which is an official partner of UNESCO, has organised international scientific conferences and schools to foster exchanges between Vietnamese or Asia-Pacific scientists and colleagues from other parts of the world.

The construction of the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) in the city of Quy Nhon (Central Vietnam) will have the ambitious objective to focus on developing Science and Education, helping young Asian students and scientists to meet with the International Science community, bringing the opportunity to accelerate their knowledge from attending lectures and sharing ideas with overseas high-level counterparts.

60 years after the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Penzias and Wilson, The Rencontres du Vietnam on
Cosmology will review the most recent status of the field. The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited indepth oral presentations (review talks and talks on specific specialised topics), and contributed papers in half a day parallel sessions, in the form of relatively short oral papers (sollicitated or selected from abstract submission). Special emphasis is being placed on active participation by young researchers and post-docs.

The main topics of the conference are:

• CMB – Large Scale Structures – Gravitational Waves
• Dark Energy – Dark Matter – Modified Gravity
• Baryogenesis and Leptogenesis – Primordial Universe – Inflation
• Black Holes – Numerical Relativity – QFT in Curved Spacetime
• Neutrino Cosmology

Pierre Astier LPNHE, Paris, France	François R. Bouchet IAP, Paris, France	Jacques Dumarchez LPNHE, Paris, France
Ken Ganga APC, Paris, France	Edward Kolb University of Chicago, USA	Tomotake Matsumura KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
Hien T. Nguyen JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, USA	Nhat Minh Nguyen Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan	Clem Pryke University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Graziano Rossi Sejong University, Seoul, Korea	Tarun Souradeep Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India

For questions regarding the scientific program contact:

Jacques Dumarchez jacques.dumarchez@cern.ch

For administrative information contact:

Mrs Thao Do Secretary of the Rencontres du Vietnam rencontres.vietnam@gmail.com BP 33 F-91192 Gif sur Yvette France Tel : 33 (0)1 69 28 51 35